Explore: Atlantic Puffins

puffins were recovered, but the number of puffins breeding in France the following year was reduced to 16% of its previous level. The Atlantic puffin

eggs of the Atlantic puffin are typically creamy white but the occasional egg is tinged lilac. Where rabbits breed, sometimes Atlantic puffins breed in rabbit

placing the puffin into an aerodynamic shape. Puffins can easily stay longer than one minute under water. Like most other seabirds, horned puffins have waterproof

similar and related Pacific puffins. Since it may be more closely related to the rhinoceros auklet than the other puffins, it is sometimes placed in the

population for both a reliable food source and a healthy ecosystem. Atlantic puffins spend the winter at sea and then return to the places of their birth

population. The last puffins leave the island by the second or third week in July. They feed mainly on small fish and sand eels; often puffins can be seen with

Fraterculini – puffins Cerorhinca Rhinoceros auklet, Cerorhinca monocerata Fratercula Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica Horned puffin, Fratercula corniculata

ground for many important seabird species including northern gannets, Atlantic puffins, and northern fulmars. The St Kilda wren and St Kilda field mouse are

difficult to get a close view of them. The puffins along the Yorkshire coast are now endangered. The Bempton puffins mostly fly 25 miles (40 km) east to the

Manks puffins in the 17th century. Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English pophyn) for the cured carcasses of nestling shearwaters. The Atlantic puffin